The article doesn't quite get the differences between the various wings of the JDL, but whatever. My question to Meir (and, tangentially, to the people at CIJA, who have been courting similar folk) is: how deep do you think the conversion among these far right groups runs? I would suggest not very: consider the case of Lemire and the Fairness Fairy. And are you willing to trade off support for Israel in exchange for giving Holocaust Denial, among other things, a pass? Because that is what the stakes are. The people who bash Muslims can, currently, in this country, bash them about as hard as they are capable of. The day after Section 13 goes, the organized Jew Bashers in Canada will declare victory, toss off this nonsense about being supporters of free speech, and get back to job number one (and, Meir, I am not referring in this case to some lady in a Bhurka thinking dark thoughts about Israel).

CJC and Bernie are gone. What's left are the right leaning groups. One thing I would like to do on this blog is help make the JDL and co. achieve less credibility within the community, unless Meir reverts back to the young Weinstein, who history says wasn't such a dick.

Not only does the JDL heroically defend Jewish community, they have great respect and outreach to the Hindu community as well. Meir has great regard for Hindus .. JDL, CHA and other groups are jointly bringing in Dr Swamy from India this spring.

The minorities of Bangladesh, especially the Hindus, were specific targets of the Pakistan army.[1][2] There was widespread killing of Hindu males, and rapes of women. More than 60% of the Bengali refugees who fled to India were Hindus.[53] It is not exactly known what percentage of the people killed by the Pakistan army were Hindus, but it is safe to say it was disproportionately high.[54] This widespread violence against Hindus was motivated by a policy to purge East Pakistan of what was seen as Hindu and Indian influences. The West Pakistani rulers identified the Bengali culture with Hindu and Indian culture, and thought that the eradication of Hindus would remove such influences from the majority Muslims in East Pakistan.[55]

R.J. Rummel has stated states that

The genocide and gendercidal atrocities were also perpetrated by lower-ranking officers and ordinary soldiers. These “willing executioners” were fueled by an abiding anti-Bengali racism, especially against the Hindu minority. “Bengalis were often compared with monkeys and chickens. Said General Niazi, ‘It was a low lying land of low lying people.’ The Hindus among the Bengalis were as Jews to the Nazis: scum and vermin that [should] best be exterminated. As to the Moslem Bengalis, they were to live only on the sufferance of the soldiers: any infraction, any suspicion cast on them, any need for reprisal, could mean their death. And the soldiers were free to kill at will. The journalist Dan Coggin quoted one Punjabi captain as telling him, "We can kill anyone for anything. We are accountable to no one." This is the arrogance of Power.

Since the 80 percent of the refugees in 1971 were Hindus,a similar proportion of the dead are likely to be Hindus also. The official Bangla Desh government estimate puts the number of Bengalis killed at 3 million. 80 percent of 3 million put THE NUMBER OF HINDUS KILLED AT 2.4 MILLION which is close to the number of Hindus missing calculated comes above.

Independent accounts indicate that Hindus from East Pakistan were special target during the 1971 army repression.

* HINDU HOUSES WERE PAINTED WITH YELLOW "H". THEY WERE ROBBED OF THEIR LANDS AND SHOPS, AND THEY WERE SYSTEMATICALLY SLAUGHTERED.

* 80 PERCENT OF THE REFUGEES TO INDIA IN 1971 WERE HINDUS. NEARLY 2.5 MILLION HINDUS WERE KILLED DURING THE 9 MONTHS OF PAKISTANI ARMY REPRESSION OF EAST PAKISTAN IN 1971. THUS IT WAS HINDU SLAUGHTERS IN 1971.

* ALL THE ABOVE BEAR UNCANNY RESEMBLANCE TO THE PERSECUTION & HOLOCAUST OF JEWS BY THE NAZIS.

Such academic rigor here. I will give Ron credit atleast he acknowledged the Muslims who died in east pakistan.

But here is the thing, the only place i hear the 2.4 million hindu killed number is from Banerjee (the "logic" presented is that 80% of the refugees were hindus and thus 80% of those killed were also hindus). yes a disproportionate number of hindus died and yes also a large number of prominant bengali muslims died. Yes this was a genocide not against a specific religious group but against an ethnic group that consisted of both Muslims and Hindus.

Now back to topic, Will banerjee be at this town hall and will he speak? I feel it is important that CIJA and this town hall hear from Mr. Banerjee.

Speaking of european far-right wingers it seems that Breivik (contrary to popular claims on Sun News, fox news and a plethora of unemployed far right bloggers) is not insane and is not being treated for any psychopathic behaviour.

It seems hard to believe that Jewish community leadership would associate itself with the JDL. This has nothing to do with politics or even Israel. The JDL is seen as very extreme in my community. The people I know would never be seen with anything the JDL sponsors. Are you saying that the new CJC has associated itself with the JDL. Sorry to seem dense but I just can't see it.

If that question is directed to me, its more as if the JDL has aligned itself with CIJA (the new CJC). I would say that CIJA hasn't really shown too much of its hand, but it is definitely right of CJC, and its CEO has cuddled up with some nasty folk (the Shaidles) when he was with the CIC.

Thanks to Lenny for that clip. It's almost Pythonesque. I'm beginning to believe as have others that the CHA is a set up to discredit the JDL, not that it needs a lot of help. But how else to describe Ron Banarjee.

Perhaps it's CSIS at work again, but this time instead of Grant Bristow it's Ron Banarjee. It's just too odd to be real!